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Bryan Ferry's Nazi gaffe
The face of M&S and voice of Roxy Music outrages Germany in newspaper interview
By Sophie Goodchild and Julia Belgutay
Published: 15 April 2007My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight... Leni Riefenstahl's movies, Albert Speer's buildings, the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful
Bryan Ferry in 'Welt Am Sonntag'
When Marks & Spencer recruited singer Bryan Ferry to be the face of its menswear collection, it believed his reputation as rock's "king of cool" would help them to boost sales.
But customers and management of the retailer, founded by Russian-Jewish refugees, will be alarmed to learn that the elegant singer has admitted he draws inspiration from the aesthetics of Nazi Germany.
Ferry, the lead singer of Roxy Music, has caused outrage at home and abroad for remarks he made to a German newspaper about his admiration for the work of Leni Riefenstahl, notorious for her Nazi propaganda films, and the architecture of Albert Speer.
In an interview withWelt am Sonntag, the 61-year-old also acknowledged that he calls his studio in west London his "Führerbunker". "My God, the Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves," he said. "Leni Riefenstahl's movies and Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags - just amazing. Really beautiful."
One German correspondent on the website of Freundin, a German women's magazine, writes: "This can't be called intellectual humour and it tests even my tolerance when you hear such stupid, crazy and dangerous waffling."
The Labour peer and former war crimes investigator Greville Janner said: "It is deeply offensive when people think they can joke about the Nazis. Riefenstahl was part of the Nazi movement and the Nazis were murderers. And the mass parades he refers to make me vomit. Marks & Spencer should have a serious rethink about employing him."
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Killing is killing. Aesthetics are aesthetics. Wolfgang Petersen used Nazi imagery in Starship Troopers. Are we banning him now, too? This is a fashion statement. It's not a supporting of Nazi behavior.
Who directed ST?
. . .got me Germans mixed up.oopsie!
=)
Now we get it right...
Ignore me in the future. I'm obviously dumb.Wow.
Can not put your reaction in any category.
Why angry?
I meant you spoke of fact, and I told you it was not exact.
So what is your problem with it?
Me?
But not because I know better, I mean the kind of guy who ALWAYS knows better.
Not that kind.
We are not here to ignore but to communicate.
All right?
In my response, I was angry at myself for making two silly mistakes - mistakes that I knew were mistakes the minute you said something. I'm not at all upset at you for pointing them out! I can see how it came off that way, though. Sorry!I forgot that self-deprication and sarcasm don't always come through when typing.
Seriously, thanks, though!
Case closed.
Like the Führer his best days are long gone.
Your measures are really saving the world from any further decline of human moral. Compliments! I, however, would advise to be more realistic and less sensitive. Nothing wrong with his music and he (Ferry) did not kill anyone, nor broke any law (as far as i know, except for the drugs you apparently did not care about!!!).In fact, when you de-couple it from their background I would agree about the artistic values of Riefenstahls films and Speers buildings and plans. Speer did get 15 years or so (not the death penalty) after the war, but not for the quality of his buildings but for his HR management.
berlin
why do HR bring out the nazi in so many people :)
past our point of return, unfortunately.
Speaking from inside the beltway...it seems to me our "politicians" have become businessman, out for themselves; history does repeat itself I'm afraid and it did end badly!
Mick and Bianca Jagger were photographed by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1970's and Mick stated that he was an admirer of her propaganda film about Hitler-- Triumph of Will. Meanwhile she professed "ignorance" about the Holocaust for many years even though she witnessed and filmed executions in Poland and gypsy concentration camp victims.In that she was not too different from the millions of Germans who claimed thay had no knowledge of the Holocaust, even in towns where the smoke for burning bodies filled that air and trains carrying Jews arrived 24 hours a day.
The absolute adoration that Germans felt for Hitler, as depicted in Leni Riefenstahl's films and in other documentary material of the period is not faked. The ability of Hilter to lead his people to ruin while committing atrocities against millions of Jews, Russians, Poles, Gypsies, and in the end, the German people themselves, while maintaining that adoration, is something I will never understand.
a goodly number of people would say the same about bush & company, i just cannot for the life of me understand the adoration by many people (particularly where i work) for that administration that is, imnsho, running this country into the ground (thats not to say the pelosi and co. are any angels, far from it, how this country will survive its goverment/business/religious pogroms is a mystery to me...)
a bunch of sanctimonious assholes. they are correct, ferry (like the us & uk gov'ts) learned a lot from the nazis, but discretion in crediting your teacher, if not outright denial, is the best course.
Given how sensitive people are to the atrocities committed by the Nazis—I’m definitely one of them—Ferry’s comments are indeed unfortunate. Hey, the guy can believe what he wants to believe, but he IS a highly public figure and, as such, should be aware that his comments will be read by millions, especially in this media-crazed society. That said, I do enjoy his music very much and won’t be ditching any of his CDs as a result of this. Hell, if I only limited myself to music made by musicians whose private lives I respected and agreed with, my collection would be cut in half—at least!
It is not his comments that makes on sick, it is his bad taste.
Leni that old Adolph bitch and Speer the master of horror, who throw out Jews of their homes to built the pure ugliness.
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